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Talking about the past

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Lesson 1

Class welcome and check-in

all right hello hi everyone welcome back how you doing today oh captain t is here and ready awesome we've got utah is ready too thanks for joining again all right we'll give peo...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 2

Talking about snacks in Europe

yeah and like french fries and yeah they have them like all over europe too they haven't been like prague do you have them in germany i'm sure in germany somewhere probably real...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 3

Making dumplings last night

um i think mine was maybe last night um yeah i had two people came over and we made dumplings so like um we made chinese style dumplings where you take a flower wrapper kind of...

Language: enDuration: 3 min

Lesson 4

Past continuous overview

bit about the past continuous or past progressive yeah it has two names very confusing for you yeah no but it's pretty simple and you've probably heard it a lot and again these...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 5

Last week and specific dates

october 29th last friday was october 22nd and so these also these dates are in two different weeks two so this week it's the 29th last week was the 22nd so here we have the expr...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 6

Megan bought groceries

last week megan bought groceries what's the time there what's the specific time mentioned so when we say last week megan brought groceries is it groceries is that when no no is...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 7

Simple past with regular verbs

radio great yeah okay let's look at how we form the simple past in english yeah we're going to start with regular verbs yeah so how do we form the simple past with regular verbs...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 8

Doubling consonants in past tense

so this one it doubles the p so instead of stopped with one p it is with two p's if you only had one p it would actually be pronounced stoked yeah english is happening funny yea...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 9

Pat yourself on the back

oh wow someone hasn't patted me on the back in a while you can also pat yourself on the back so that's a little is it an idiot it's a little thing we say if someone did well you...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 10

Adding d to verbs

know why i keep doing the american sign language for e but there it is um yeah you just simply add the letter d again the pronunciation here is baked i baked a cake yeah i know...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 11

Common irregular verbs

you use the most are normally the irregular ones and you learn them quickly because you use them all the time yeah right so that's kind of cool there are some irregular you know...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 12

Go becomes went

i went to the supermarket right yeah this one's very different go and went yes went yeah yesterday i went to the supermarket i went you went he went did you go to the supermarke...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 13

See becomes saw

saw friends yeah i saw friends or i saw some friends sounds a little better yeah good i'll type that one in oh you got it she's on it okay okay yeah seesaw there's also a toy in...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 14

Have becomes had

have becomes had he said did you have any pets and i said i have five dogs or had sorry had five dollars i only have one now oh okay um what brian what did you make for dinner l...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 15

Technical difficulties and review

we were having technical difficulties can you see us now can you hear us okay okay we're back thanks jen okay um okay yeah sorry about that all right moving onward so um irregul...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 16

Be in the past tense

what verb changes in the past tense based on the subject can you tell us in the comments yeah this is a tough one it's a hard one but this is one of the most common verbs it's p...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 17

How were you yesterday

um how about you how were you doing yesterday yeah were you tired yesterday were you were you excited were you busy let us know how you were yesterday how are you doing tell us...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 18

Read in present and past

read my book yeah but be careful read and read are written the same they look the same you can't see a difference you just you have to know on like with the context so i read i...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 19

What did you do yesterday

words we use so what did you do yesterday um yesterday i went shopping should i add more or is that good well maybe type type the question okay so what did you do yesterday let'...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 20

Did you make hummus

made hummus today so i could say jen did you make hummus today and see what happened with that she said i made hummus in the past but you don't say did you made hummus it's did...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 21

Did you listen or were listening

between did you listen to music and were you listening to music they're very similar there's a small difference and we'll talk about that yeah we'll talk about that after we hav...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 22

Negative simple past forms

so i didn't study i didn't read she didn't eat he didn't drive we didn't walk oh that's confusing with finish yeah i think we can just leave this for a moment um good so again m...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 23

Break and worksheet plan

we'll come back in a few minutes and what we do after the break we told you earlier do you guys remember after the break we'll do a little worksheet and then we're going to quic...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 24

Getting ready after the break

all right should we pdf okay sorry we're just getting everything ready again if you need to take a bathroom break get your notepad ready you know ready for some more some more p...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 25

Meeting famous people

met somebody famous before okay i've met famous people in germany but i didn't know they were famous does that make sense so they're famous in germany and everybody knew them bu...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 26

Worksheet answers

go through and get all of the answers sooner yeah um sorry so first one hey what did you do yesterday yeah yeah good job what did you do yesterday what did you do yesterday i gr...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 27

Did you go shopping

awesome did you go shopping last weekend no i didn't go shopping last weekend but i shopping last thursday you go to the gym last week i oh well but i but i went shopping last t...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 28

Could and had review

here can could so could only has three sounds could you don't say the l in there yeah could and then yep good so lastly have becomes had yep good so hopefully by the end of this...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 29

She made spaghetti

last night but it was like a parmesan sauce that's all it's good okay so she oh yeah she did spaghetti for dinner last night not so much we would maybe say i could see what you'...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 30

Formal writing and contractions

would not say can't i would say cannot i wouldn't say i'm i would say i am. um but i very rarely write something that formal even when i write to say like a business or to like...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 31

Did you go shopping mistake

uh be careful this is a common mistake did you went shopping is not correct right you use the simple form of the verb did you go shopping and then five um did you say hi to him...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 32

Guests arrived and Marcus cooked

when the guests arrived marcus cooked dinner what this means is first the guests arrived to marcus's house or apartment or wherever right then marcus cooked dinner he began cook...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 33

I was cleaning all day

i just know it lasted a long time during the day i was cleaning all day long and again is this the present or the past or the future or the future no the future doesn't exist ye...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 34

Forming the past continuous

when you called me maybe i answered the phone maybe i didn't but i was working when he called me okay with all these examples how do we form the past continuous so this one's ho...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 35

Irregular spelling changes

changes they're not so bad though those are irregular for example if you have a vowel and consonant at the end of your word you're going to double the consonant so get becomes g...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 36

What were you doing

i was working all day so and i turned my phone off wow yeah okay understandable yeah um so if you want to know what a person was doing at a specific time you asked that what wer...

Language: enDuration: 4 min

Lesson 37

Past continuous common mistakes

um [Music] now as far as common mistakes go with the past continuous you tend to have there are certain verbs we don't use that much in the past continuous so these are stative...

Language: enDuration: 5 min

Lesson 38

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